Mamata Banerjee Blocks Bengal Guv Dhankhar On Twitter, Says ‘Disturbed By His Tweets’
Mumbai: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday blocked Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar from her Twitter account, a day after she said the state has become “a gas chamber for democracy”, in signs that ties between the two leaders neared a point of no return following years of acrimony.
“I apologise for it in advance. He (Jagdeep Dhankhar) tweets something every day abusing me or my officers. Says unconstitutional, unethical things. He instructs not advises. Treats an elected government like bonded labour. That’s why I have blocked him from my Twitter account. I was getting irritated,” Mamata Banerjee said at a news conference.
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Ms Banerjee also said that the governor has threatened the chief secretary and the police chief on several occasions.
He said that he has written several times to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking Mr Dhankhar’s removal, but no action has been taken so far.
Mamata Banerjee’s move, which will mean that the governor’s posts will no longer be visible on her Twitter feed, appears to have been inspired by Mr Dhankhar’s latest attack on her government at an event to mark the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
“I cannot see the hallowed land of Bengal getting blood-drenched (in violence) and becoming a laboratory for the trampling of human rights. People are saying that the state is turning into a gas chamber of democracy,” he had said in remarks that he posted on his Twitter account as well.
“There is no rule of law in Bengal. Only the ruler rules here. It is my responsibility to protect the Constitution,” he said, adding that no amount of “insults” will deter him from performing his “duties”.
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On Monday, he responded to Mamata Banerjee’s move by quoting the Constitution.
The governor, a former leader of the opposition BJP who has been with Ms Banerjee permanently since her appointment in 2019, recently accused the chief minister and the speaker of the assembly of violating constitutional norms, which she sought on several The information provided was not provided.
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